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“There are limits”!!
Dstruct
On 11, 12, and 13th of September, during the festival Wereld van Witte de With (Rotterdam, NL), Mothership presents several artworks that will be testing the limits.
'Prohibido el paso' by Gijs van Bon is an interactive artwork whereby the festival's visitors will determine the theatrical choreography of 8 mechanical barriers.
'Physics Distorter' by Jan van Nuenen is a video installation with a wireless remote control in the shape of a globe. This realistic computer simulation of a 1000 falling, bouncing and colliding objects on a façade in the Witte de Withstraat fortunately knows its own limits.
Dstruct will be employing it's crowd controllers and keep an eye on the visitors, making sure that no limits will be exceeded.
If your limits have been exceeded, you can now grab your chance to pillory your friends, acquaintances or family at Stick Up. After being taped to the mobile pillory, they can be paraded down the street. Check www.festivalwww.nl for the complete programme.
Billy Apple®
By commission of Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR) and Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, two large billboards with texts of the artist Billy Apple® have been installed in the public space of Rotterdam. “The artist has to live like everybody else” is placed on the façade of the Weenapoint B building, facing Central Station. “From sculpture international Rotterdam collection” has been placed on the façade of the building of foundation MEE Rotterdam at the Schiedamse Vest, temporarily taking the place of Laan Irodjojo's artwork. The billboards will be on display until the 13th of September, during the solo exhibition of Billy Apple® at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art.
www.wdw.nl
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Buff Diss: Indivi DUVEL isme
Saatchi & Saatchi approached Mothership to come up with a special live performance for the campaign “IndiviDUVELisme” for Duvel, a Belgian beer. Mothership presented them tape artist Buff Diss from Melbourne, who created 2 designs on billboards at the Leidsplein in Amsterdam. The "duvelish" plan was well received.
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Arno Coenen: Mega-Mosaic III
The district Kanaleneiland in Utrecht has commissioned another artwork by Arno Coenen. In his own visual language, Coenen designed his third mega mosaic made with coloured concrete tiles.
Previously, Coenen designed an enormous mosaic called “Virtual Fairytale 2.0”, consisting of contemporary fairytale figures from computer games, and “I HVNT TLD HLF OF WHT I SW!”, a large mosaic depicting the display of a mobile phone and a quote from Marco Polo.
Coenen's visual language was chosen again for a mosaic of coloured concrete tiles, that will be a central point amidst schools, soccer fields and basketball courts.
www.arnocoenen.nl
Haas&Hahn: Combi
Being a part of Brazil-Rotterdam, the Combi van of artists Haas&Hahn is driving through Rotterdam, acting as a mobile multi-media centre. You will either shudder or enjoy whilst looking at the old Volkswagen, when it's showing movies about the real life in the favelas. In previous years the artists have created large scale paintings with youths and inhabitants of no-go-area's in Rio de Janeiro. www.favelapainting.com more
Vincent Dekkers: Masterclass
During the Summer Events of Your World, photographer Vincent Dekkers was asked to teach a master class to young people. After the master class, the youngsters went out to take some nice pictures.
The funniest, craziest, best pictures will be on display in September on the ventilation pipes at the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam.
Vincent Dekkers' own work consists mainly of street photography and photographic reports of youth cultures and the multicultural society. Since 2005 he has photographed hundreds of young people, using themes such as work, sport and games, daily environment and religion. www.vincentdekkers.com
Dstruct & Rnul: Free Gaming Round 2
Free Gaming Round 2 recently took place at the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam (NL). For a day, the square was being controlled by games computers, gamers and artists. Rnul presented 'Control Me Life', in which you could shoot the Free Gaming visitors (on a screen). With this artwork, Rnul wants to bring up these kind of games for discussion. The lighter work 'The Tomato Killer' enabled the audience to throw tomatoes on screen at people and game related characters.
Dstruct presented 'Noise Joy', a life size joystick with which you could manipulate 8-bit computer sounds.
www.rnul.nl
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Nomination for 'The Flying Grass Carpet' by HUNK-design and ID-Eddy
Mothership is proud to have been the first that believed in the progressive concept of the flying city park. At Artpie Amsterdam 2008, Mothership enabled the launch of the flying carpet, which has since then been flying from town to town. A year and a half later, it is nominated for the Dutch Audi Design Award 2009. The winner will be announced during the award show on the 17th of October. We've been keeping our fingers crossed for a while already. You too can vote on 'The Flying Grass Carpet' at www.dutchdesignawards.nl
Enter The World of Mothership
Mothership is really proud of all its projects and artists. Many of them have been filmed.
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